Organisation:

Georg Gasser (georg.gasser@uibk.ac.at)

Johannes Grssl (johannes.groessl@uibk.ac.at)
Lukas Kraus (lukas.kraus@uibk.ac.at)
Analytic Theology Project - University of Innsbruck
Department of Christian Philosophy
Karl-Rahner-Platz 1
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
www.uibk.ac.at/analytic-theology
analytic-theology@uibk.ac.at
Analytic Theology Innsbruck
Towards a Convergence of Philosophy and Theology
Divine Action in the World
University of Innsbruck, Austria
International Conference

August 4 August 6, 2014
Haus der Begegnung, Innsbruck
Divine Action in the World
Philosophical and Theological Inquiries
A basic claim of theistic belief systems is that
God engages in relationship with his creation.
Talk of Gods action in the world, however, is
open to many interpretations, since it raises nu-
merous questions about the causal structure of
reality, laws of nature, and human free will.
In our conference, internationally renowned
philosophers and theologians will discuss these
questions and give new and innovative answers.
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Schedule:
Monday, August 4
08:30-09:00 Welcome Address
09:00-09:40 Helen Steward (Univ. of Leeds, UK)
Agency Incompatibilism and the Actions of
God
09:40-10:10 Discussion
10:10-10:50 Daniel von Wachter (IAP, Liechtenstein)
Divine and Other Interventions
10:50-11:20 Discussion

11:50-12:30 Thomas F. Tracy (Bates College, USA)
Special Divine Action in a Lawful Natural
Order
12:30-13:00 Discussion

14:30-15:10 Lydia Jaeger (Nogent Bible Institute, FRA)
Chance in a Created World: How to Avoid
Common Misunderstandings about Divine
Action
15:10-15:40 Discussion
15:40-16:20 Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College, USA)
A Philosophical Philosophy of Divine and
Human Powers
16:20-16:50 Discussion

17:20-18:00 Robert Garcia (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
The Nature of Creaturely Properties in a
World Sustained by God
18:00-18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:10 Klaus von Stosch (Univ. of Paderborn, GER)
Gods Action in History
19:10-19:40 Discussion
Tuesday, August 5
08:30-09:10 Christopher Evan Longhurst (Al Akhawayn
Univ., Marocco)
Islamic Progressive Creation According to
Srah al-Hashr verse 24:"He is Allh, the
Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner of
Forms"
09:10-09:40 Discussion
09:40-10:20 Josef Quitterer and Georg Gasser (Univ. of
Innsbruck, AUT)
The Power of God and Miracles
10:20-10:50 Discussion

11:20-12:00 David Hunt (Whittier College, USA)
Foreknowledge and Divine Action
12:00-12:30 Discussion

14:30-15:10 Thomas Schrtl (Univ. of Augsburg, GER)
On Theological and Philosophical Reasons for
Non-Interventionism
15:10-15:40 Discussion
15:40-16:20 Laura Ekstrom (College of William & Mary, USA)
Would God Create Beings with Libertarian
Free Will?
16:20-16:50 Discussion

17:20-18:00 Paul Helm (Regent College, CAN)
Divine Eternity and Divine Freedom
18:00-18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:10 Ingolf Dalferth (Univ. of Zrich, CH, and Clare-
mont Graduate Univ., USA)
" in God only one infnite act can be
thought " The Ambiguity of Divine Agency
and the Diversity of Evil
19:10-19:40 Discussion
Wednesday, August 6
08:30-09:10 Christoph Schwbel (Univ. of Tbingen,
GER)
TBA
09:10-09:40 Discussion
09:40-10:20 Adonis Vidu (Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary, USA)
Opera Trinitatis Ad Extra and Collective
Agency
10:20-10:50 Discussion

11:20-12:00 Hans-Christian Schmidbaur (Univ. of Luga-
no, CH)
With an "Analytic Thomism of reconciled
mind" to a New "Pneumatological Realism"
12:00-12:30 Discussion

14:30-15:10 Gregory Boyd (Bethel Univ., USA)
Free Will and Gods Limited Power to Inter-
vene
15:10-15:40 Discussion
15:40-16:20 Derk Pereboom (Cornell Univ., USA)
Libertarianism and Theological Determi-
nism
16:20-16:50 Discussion

17:20-18:00 Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene Univ.,
USA)
Cooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency
18:00-18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:10 Dan O`Brien (Oxford Brooks Univ., UK)
Divine Mindreading, Angelology and the
Incarnation
19:10-19:40 Discussion